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GRANTS AWARDED IN 1998

Hawaii Association of Independent Schools
$25,000 for 1 year:  1998
To support the Summerbridge Hawaii Program, an academic enrichment program for middle school students who are taught by talented high school and college-age students interested in exploring teaching as a future career.

Bay Area Youth Agency Consortium
$25,000 for 1 year:  1998
To support Building a Moral Community, a cohesive service learning based ethics program that fosters trust, mutual respect, service diversity and more conscious ethical decision making across five counties through AmeriCorps members’ involvement in professional development activities and direct service work with youth in local communities.

Stanford University Graduate School of Education; Service Learning 2000 Center
$30,000 for 1 year:  1998
To support research and dialogue on the Cultural and Spiritual Roots of Service from diverse traditions and perspectives to deepen and strengthen K-12 service learning practice.

Northeast Foundation for Children
$25,000 for 1 year: 1998
To renew support for the second year of the Kensington Avenue Elementary School Research Project, focusing on the effectiveness of the Responsive Classroom approach to teaching and learning by documenting the relationship between social/ethical development of students and academic achievement as measured by standardized tests.

Pacific News Service
$50,000 for 1 year:  1998
To renew support for the expansion of The Beat Within  - a YO! (Youth Outlook) special outreach project that engages incarcerated youth in writing/communication workshops bed by YO! Staff and communications professionals, and publishes a biweekly newsletter of their writing and artwork to juvenile halls in Contra Costa, San Mateo, San Jose, San Francisco and Alameda counties.

Coalition for Drug Free Hawaii
$74,000 for 3 years:  1998 – 2001
To support one school site’s implementation of Strengthening Hawaii’s Families Program based on traditional Hawaiian values – caring, responsibility, cooperation and helpfulness – and to develop an evaluation mechanism that integrates the meaning and impact of values and skills development on strengthening relationships among family members.